Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
For readers of Behind the Beautiful Forevers and Nothing to Envy, this is a breathtaking real-life story of four street children in contemporary Zambia whose lives are drawn together and forever altered by the mysterious murder of a fellow street child. Based on years of investigative reporting and unprecedented fieldwork, Walking the Bowl immerses readers in the daily lives of four unforgettable characters: Lusabilo, a determined waste picker; Kapula,...
Author
Series
Bleecker Street Inquiry Agency volume 1
The Bleeker street inquiry agency volume 1
Bleaker Street Inquiry Agency volume 1
The Bleeker street inquiry agency volume 1
Bleaker Street Inquiry Agency volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Gabriella Goodhue had put her past as a thief behind her, until a woman in her boardinghouse is unjustly accused and she is caught gathering evidence by Nicholas Quinn, a fellow street urchin against whom she holds a grudge. Nicholas refuses to lose her twice and insists they join forces-but their feelings are tested when danger follows their every step"--
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the highlands of North Vietnam lies the remote town of Sapa, home to a mosaic of colorful hill tribes. Sapa opened to tourism in the late 1990s and now roughly 200 hill tribe girls aged 7 18 years live independently on the streets of Sapa to sell embroidery. A few years ago Australian film maker Shalom Almond visited Sapa as a tourist and became friends with four Hmong girls. The girls are savvy, street smart and dream of life beyond selling souvenirs....
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Fished from the river as an infant and raised by a roving band of street urchins who call themselves the Crowns, eight-year-old Duck keeps her head down and her mouth shut. It's a rollicking life, always thieving, always on the run -- until the ragtag Crowns infiltrate an abandoned cathedral in the city of Odierne and decide to set down roots. It's all part of the bold new plan hatched by the Crowns' fearless leader, Gnat: one of their very own will...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Swinging London, Summer 1967. Sixteen-year-old Estella, gifted with talent, ingenuity, and ambition, dreams of becoming a renowned fashion designer. But life seems intent on making sure her dreams never come true. Having arrived in London as a young girl, Estella now runs wild through the city streets with Jasper and Horace, amateur thieves who double as Estella's makeshift family and partners-in-(petty)-crime. How can Estella dedicate herself to...
6) Sun Children
Language
Persian
Formats
Description
Official Oscar Entry for Iran, SUN CHILDREN is the story of 12-year-old ALI and his three friends. Together they work hard to survive and support their families, doing small jobs in a garage and committing petty crimes to make fast money. In a turn of events that seems miraculous, Ali is entrusted to find a hidden treasure underground. He recruits his gang, but first, to gain access to the tunnel, the children must enroll at the Sun School, a charitable...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Kabir has been in jail since the day he was born, because his mom is serving time for a crime she didn't commit. He's never met his dad, so the only family he's got are their cellmates, and the only place he feels the least bit free is in the classroom, where his kind teacher regales him with stories of the wonders of the outside world. Then one day a new warden arrives and announces Kabir is too old to stay. He gets handed over to a long-lost "uncle"...
9) Mud city
Author
Series
Breadwinner series volume 3
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Shauzia, an Afghan refugee living in a camp in Pakistan, determines to find a way to fulfill her dreams of seeing the ocean and beginning a new life in France.
Publisher
BayView Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
Negus, Chale, Sapo, and Chata are teenagers living in Mexico's Guerrero colony. Friends since childhood, they have too much time on their hands. The foursome decides to rob the local cinema. Each finds his or her reason to go ahead with the caper, unaware that the ordeal may threaten the only thing they have, their friendship.
Author
Series
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Yokohama may be peaceful, but there's never a dull moment as the agency enters a dance contest and gathers around to tell spooky stories. However, what if the series took a different path? What if the agency was a patisserie instead? What if Bungo Stray Dogs was about actual dogs? Or most unbelievable of all--what if Chuuya had a growth spurt?"--
12) Chop shop
Series
Criterion collection volume 1067
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"For his acclaimed follow-up to Man Push Cart, Ramin Bahrani once again turned his camera on a slice of New York City rarely seen on-screen: Willets Point, Queens, an industrial sliver of automotive-repair shops that remains perpetually at risk of being redeveloped off the map. It's within this precarious ecosystem that twelve-year-old Ale (Alejandro Polanco) must grow up fast, hustling in the neighborhood chop shops to build a more stable life for...
13) Outside in
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the jungle outside the growing city of Chandigarh, twelve-year-old street child Ram discovers a hidden rock garden, befriends its creator--a factory worked named Nek--and tries to save Nek's garden when it is threatened with destruction.
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"After an abusive, neglected childhood spent on welfare and in and out of homelessness in Alaska, raised by a mother who believed she was the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary, Carrot Quinn moved out on her own. She found a sense of belonging with a bunch of straight-edge anarchists who taught her how to traverse the country by freight trains, sleep in fields under the stars, and find her food by foraging in dumpsters. Her new life was one of thrilling...
Author
Publisher
Insight Comics
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Our young heroes from the elegant streets of uptown London to the sinister halls of Bedlam. Together, Billy, Charlie, and Tom--and Watson the cat--face new missions and new enemies, including the terrifying murderer Bloody Percy. Nothing can prepare them for the news from Reichenbach Falls: Sherlock Holmes, the renowned detective and mentor of the three friends, has perished. Struggling with shock and grief, the Baker Street Four embark on their darkest...
Author
Series
Les Quatre de Baker Street volume 5-6
Publisher
Insight Comics
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The adventures of the Baker Street Irregulars continue in the third volume of the award-winning comics series based on Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. The Baker Street Four are back in a new adventure full of action and mystery! When Sherlock Holmes tragically disappears into the Reichenbach Falls with Professor Moriarty, his sworn enemy, Billy, Charlie, and Tom--and Watson the cat--must begin a new life without their mentor. But an...
Author
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
From the pages of Bungo Stray Dogs comes a new series about the peaceful, everyday lives of the cast--only now, the Armed Detective Agency and Port Mafia are mini-sized? Whether it 's sniffing out the dark secrets hidden in the agency lockers, or going to a public bathhouse with the Mafia barking at their heels, there's never a dull moment for Atsushi and his friends
18) The Thief Lord
Author
Language
English
Description
Escaping the aunt who wants to adopt only one of them, two orphaned brothers run away from Hamburg to Venice, finding shelter with a gang of street children and their leader, the thirteen-year-old "Thief Lord, " while also eluding the detective hired to return them to Germany.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"n the city of Hodorf, the Tattercoats live by a strict code. Only steal what you need, don't leave a trace of yourself behind, and if another Tattercoat is in trouble, you must always help them out. These are the rules that guide Nim's life as she and her rat, Nibbles, live on the streets and the rooftops of the only place she's ever called home. So when a new boy named Otto comes to town and gets caught up in the devious plottings of a former Tattercoat...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Pip lives by his wits in the city of Clarel. When he picks the wrong pocket, he finds himself in possession of a strange dried heart in a silver casket--and those who lost it will stop at nothing to get it back. With assassins on his trail and the ominous heart beginning to whisper to him, Pip and his childlike older sister El are drawn deeper into the forbidden world of magic. Now they must seek the help of the secret witches of Clarel and Princess...
In Marina
Didn't find what you need? Items that were published more than six months ago and which are not owned by AACPL can be requested from other Marina libraries in Maryland.
Didn't find a newly published title?
Looking for a title that was published in the past six months? You can submit a purchase suggestion. Please do not submit purchase suggestions for titles that have not yet been published. Submit Request